Word: hrdc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...live performance. Directors Daphne Adler '99 and Kiesha Minyard '99, both past co-directors of the Harvard Radcliffe Ballet company, obviously knew that the Mainstage is an ideal venue for showcasing Harvard dancers. They had an arduous task in front of them when they set out to convince HRDC that dance belonged on the much-prized Mainstage spring program. Luckily for them and us, after multiple persuasive attempts Minyard and Adler finally convinced HRDC to end dance's long hiatus from the Mainstage, and Perpetual Motion was brought, literally, to glorious light...
...live performance. Directors Daphne Adler '99 and Kiesha Minyard '99, both past co-directors of the Harvard-Radcliffe Ballet Company, obviously knew that the Mainstage is an ideal venue for showcasing Harvard dancers. They had an arduous task in front of them when they set out to convince HRDC that dance belonged on the much-prized Mainstage spring program. Luckily for them and us, after multiple persuasive attempts Minyard and Adler finally convinced HRDC to end dance's long hiatus from the Mainstage, and Perpetual Motion was brought, literally, to glorious light...
...Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club--or "HRDC" to those grooving to the bongo beat of thespian bohemia--are a talented, largely self-appreciative society of entertainers. Much like your humble narrators at FM, these players pander to the cultured, frolick-loving Harvard masses with affordably priced, all-you-can-eat entertainment...
...HRDC's new production of Sophocles' Antigone is a bit overwhelming at first, beginning with a confusing torrent of voices and pantomimed scenes. What is important to understand is that Sophocles' classical Greek play has been transferred to Civil War-era Maryland, a border state and thus the most likely locale for the background story of the tragedy. Two brothers, sons of Oedipus (yes, that Oedipus), fight each other to the death, one brother killing the other and then dying from a bullet wound. Creon, the governor of Maryland (Edie Bishop '00) has declared that the Union Army brother will...
...HRDC is not alone. The College's 240-plus student groups annually race for grants, competing against one another for money from the Dean of Student's Office, the Office for the Arts, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and the Radcliffe Union of Students...